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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021/schedule-2/paragraph-13",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2021/9780348220308",
  "legislation_title": "The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-registration-of-marriages-regulations-2021",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/13",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "First quarterly return after 4th May 2021",
  "text": "(1) Row 12 of the table in Schedule 1 to the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 (sum paid by superintendent registrar upon delivery of a certified copy) continues to apply (as if not omitted by these Regulations), with the modification in sub-paragraph (2), in relation to the delivery of any certified copy of an entry in a marriage register book required by section 57(1) of the Marriage Act 1949 (quarterly returns to be made to superintendent registrar) to be delivered before 1st August 2021.\n(2) In column 4 of Row 12 of the table in Schedule 1 to the Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016, the reference to the authorised person with custody of the marriage register book within the meaning of regulation 8 of the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Regulations 1952 is to be read as a reference to the authorised person, within the meaning given in sub-paragraph (3), required by law to keep the marriage register book.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (2) “authorised person” means a person whose name and address have been certified under section 43 or 43B of the 1949 Act (appointment of authorised persons for buildings and chapels registered for solemnization of marriage).\n(4) The requirements of regulation 8 of the Marriage (Authorised Persons) Regulations 1952 (custody of register books and forms) relating to forms for certified copies continue to apply in relation to a registered building (within the meaning of that regulation) until the requirements under section 57 of the 1949 Act have been complied with in respect of all marriage register books to which that section applies relating to the registration of marriages solemnized in that building.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2016/911. Row 12 was amended by S.I. 2017/947."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 57 was amended by Schedule 2 to the Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37), paragraph 14 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 and S.I. 2009/2821."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 43 was amended by paragraph 10 of Schedule 7 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. Section 43B was inserted by paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}